Chapter Twenty-Two
“In two days, we had sex ten times, Granger. Ten, no condom, no charm, hard…aggressive sex.”
Chapter Twenty-Three
“Consider it like being stranded in the ocean and searching for someone who is lost in it without a life jacket.”
Chapter Twenty-Four
“But it is…isn’t it? I’ve been stuck in quicksand wanting something to work that isn’t compatible by any means, and if you tell me it is, show me where.”
Chapter Twenty-Five
“I’d rather be alone than with someone whose interests are beyond my control; I shouldn’t have to look at myself and wonder if I’m enough.”
Chapter Twenty-Six
“Stay the fuck out of my business Parkinson, and I’ll stay out of yours, there's your partnership.”
Chapter Twenty-Seven
“An ache hits me, low in my stomach, when that foot meets my gut. Knowing he has slept with her that many times.”
Chapter Twenty-Eight
“I study the ink peeking from beneath his collar, wondering if his skin tastes like sugar and how well he could handle my teeth if I were to rake them across his Adam's apple.”
Chapter Twenty-Nine
“In the shadows by a red door sits a small boy, his eyes resembling blue flame, with platinum hair and a freckle beneath his left eye.”
Chapter Thirty
“Hurt scorns his features as he breathes, staring at me like I’ve lain down before him and allowed another man to touch me in infidelity rather than behind the confines of a closed door.”
Chapter Thirty-One
“You give him too much clout, Hermione. Don’t give him the satisfaction of being the reason you skip meals.”
Chapter Thirty-Two
“I love it when you talk dirty to me. What else can you do with that mouth?”
Chapter Thirty-Three
“I’m no stranger to fucking myself up enough to miss a toilet, and my mother is sick.”
Chapter Thirty-Four
“Where I’ve failed, he prevailed, and whether it be a friendly gesture to accompany her in the corridor while she vomits profusely into a bucket or out of spite for my reluctance to do just that, he’s been understandably loud about it.”
Chapter Thirty-Five
“I’d like to lay you down right there by the fire and fuck you senseless. But I’ll keep my hands to myself until you tell me not to.”
Chapter Thirty-Six
“It excuses nothing, you’re curse-bound, there is no rule to devastation should you make the mistake of conceiving.”